Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-16

- erTuaTfoN On Tx MOUNT.

iites viii be almost deserted Cor the snnlr
IneE vacation.
THE SITUATION or THE MOUNT.
The delightful situation Of Mt. De Cham
tai is well known. One of the visitors
Yesterday writes to the REGISTER rs fol-
lows
ssWhen / first found myself speeding
along through that part of West Virginia
which lies about Grafton (if / remember
rightly, when was pupil at the Mount,
/ thought had reached the bounds OF civ
iIization. A greater contrast to the green
mess and smoothness of England there
could not wen be. My heart began tosink
q little.
s'Only to rise, however, on reaching my
journeys end Some one once remarked
in visiting this beautiful spot, that God
from all eternity had intended it for the
site of a convent. 1t may be more inter
interesting to parents to know that it
might well have been intended from all
eternity for the site of a school. Only two
miles from Wheeling, and with a railway
station at the gate, it nevertheless seems
the perfection Of seclusion. A Happy VAL
ley, partially enclosed by wooded and vine
clad hills, yet looking down on one aide
into the yet lower valley through which
flows Wheeling creek = what
change from smoky, foggy, noisy, busy
London! The little stream, eccentric in
its WanderIngs, forms charming natural
boundary to two sides of the estate. By
its side there is here pebbly shore, there
a green meadow, which only few weeks
AGO was filed with wild flowers; yonder a
shady spot, where dear old Isaac Walton
would have loved to while away summer
day, deity casting fly and gently con-
versing with disciple.
AT Mount de Chantal, man has not
spoiled Gods work; he has only beautified
it. Level aud rising ground-gentle slope
and deep ravine-were here to begin with.
Everything else has been made. Visitors
often say to the Sisters, We'll, the lines
have fallen to you in pleasant places; l
would not mind being Nun here myself!
But the Sisters who purchased this place
and removed to it from their old home In
Wheeling had to take for their motto,
''Show Thy Servants Thy Work, and their
Children Thy Glory" This place never
c0ulu nave Deen Wuhb III Is "iehOuO nhoO
heads to plan and willing hands to labor.
Cow pastures and potato fields have
been transformed into level lawns
and wooded slopes, and glowing
flower beds. Rail fences have given
place to green well-trimmed hedges.
Where there was hut one solitary tree there
may now be found every variety of orna.
mental tree and shrub, while the steep be-
tween the pleasure grounds and the stream
is a forest in miniature. A rustic bridge
saves you roundabout walk. A natural
and never-failing spring has basin
scooped out for it in the solid stCne, While
the cliff above It Is formed into beautiful
grotto, and the shelving rocks are half
hidden in ferns.
''That gentle influences prevail is APP
parent Lively as the grounds usually are
with croquet and tennis, and even base
ball-Q notice more than one fair maiden
who handles the bat skilfully)-the birds
come so near that You can almost touch
them, and the timid wild rabbit, happen
ing across your path, sits up TRANQUILITY in
front of you and looks you trustfully in the
face